ultramarine
4 definitions found
ultramarine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Ultramarine \Ul`tra*ma*rine"\ ([u^]l`tr[.a]*m[.a]*r[=e]n"), a.
[Pref. ultra- + marine.]
Situated or being beyond the sea. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
Ultramarine \Ul`tra*ma*rine"\, n. [Cf. Sp. ultramarino. So
called because the lapis lazuli was originally brought from
beyond the sea, -- from Asia.] (Chem.)
A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli,
but now produced in large quantities by fusing together
silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass,
colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion.
Also used adjectively.
[1913 Webster]
Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first
product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it
is changed by subsequent treatment.
Ultramarine ash or Ultramarine ashes (Paint.), a pigment
which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the
ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old
masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and
draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray than that
produced by the mixture of more positive colors.
--Fairholt.
[1913 Webster]
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
]
Syn: colourful.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
; picturesque]
[WordNet 1.5]
3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
; sorrel, brownish-orange
; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
; hazel; honey, honey-colored
; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
ultramarine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
ultramarine
adj 1: of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color
n 1: blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli [syn:
ultramarine, ultramarine blue]
2: a vivid blue to purple-blue color
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